Are you planning to buy huge vacuum tubes, and are you confused about the options ?
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Our review process:
The daily purposes tube you're opting for might totally vary depending on various factors including objective measures like dimensions, subjective factors like the feel, and other specific requirements. Though we have a variety of recommendations, we pick products that suit most people's needs.
For yet another perspective, we also asked non-tech-focused friends to tell us what they thought about the finalists.
Pick the one you want among the presented or you may blindly pick the first option.
Note: Just because we didn't mention a tube in this guide doesn't mean it's not good. The following are simply our picks for the best tubes for most people - you may have specific preferences , that make a different tube better for you.
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The features department is where jj electronic huge vacuum tube truly manages to shine. This pair of matched tubes is a great replacement for the Monoprice 25 watt hybrid amp. These are pin converters that allow you to safely use EL84's in your amp. The sound is exactly what you want in an EL84 and the tubes hold up very well. These JJ's sound great after a good burn-in and they don't break the bank.
The tube box is not bubble wrapped or secured against g-force stock. The strings separation is more defined when playing chords. This amp runs hotter than most, and even mesa's own EL84s end up redplating after a couple hours of playing, and sound mediocre up to then. They're low cost, reliable, and rugged.
Why We Like This:
Tone improved, richer, more gain and sustain
Breath-taking, fuller low-end definitions when used with good, capable headphones
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The jj electronic vacuum tube should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. It has a well balanced, colorful tone with strongly defined lows, mids and smooth highs. It can be used in any preamp or microphone application. It can be used on avantone and the other chinese c-12 clones and it will double the perfomance. The high frequency's are almost transparent in good range but with no "ice picking" with a even bottom.
These new tubes have cleaned up the sound and the amp has a lot more volume and is a lot crisper sound with little distortion at higher volumes. It is suitable for use in a professional music studio. They're inexpensive and reliable.
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The Gold Lion really opens up the soundstage and presentation and adds a nice warmth to the music that the EH and stock tube didn't get close to offering. It has a different sound, no tubes sound alike due to the different frequencies the tube can change. The high is airy and very clean without any sibilance at all.
The Gold Lion adds noticeable warmth, but at the cost of losing a decent amount of detail at the top end. The bass is also a dramatic improvement from the stock tube and the musicality is very good. The sonic separation is good and there, but everything feels flat like a flat, condensed, limited glossy magazine page. The tube is very fun to listen to.
Why We Like This:
Makes everything sound far more natural and smoother
Makes the schiit vali 2 + sound, good
Compared to electro harmonix, loss of detail, extra warmth